She spoke about how she and George Zimmerman went into hiding after the February 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen from Miami Gardens who was visiting his father in Sanford.

"We have been pretty much gypsies for past year and a half," Shellie Zimmerman said. "We lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods, scared every night that someone was going to find us and that it would be horrific."

She revealed she wasn't home the night her husband confronted Trayvon because they had an argument and she was staying with her father.

She told O'Connor her husband wouldn't have profiled Trayvon, as many have claimed.

"That's just not his way,'' Shellie Zimmerman said.

She lied during her husband's April 20, 2012, bail hearing, in an effort to help him get out of jail.

"I can rationalize a lot of reasons for why I was misleading but the truth is that I knew that I was lying," she said.

Zimmerman testified that she and her husband were broke. But they had taken in more than $130,000 in donations in a little more than two weeks from Internet donors.

"I can't tell you how many nights I've gone, or laid awake at night, just thinking I wish to God these circumstances had been different" she said.

Shellie Zimmerman pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to a less-serious form of perjury in a deal that will require her to serve one year of probation.

George Zimmerman wasn't in the courtroom, prompting a question from O'Connor about whether Shellie wanted him there.

A six-member Seminole County jury acquitted George Zimmerman of murder in Trayvon's death in July.

In the interview aired Thursday, Shellie Zimmerman also revealed she didn't approve of her husband's recent visit to Kel-Tec CNC Industries in Cocoa, which made the gun he used to kill Trayvon — a 9 mm Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol.

"I'm so deeply sorry for their loss,'' Shellie Zimmerman said, referring to Trayvon's parents. "I can't even begin to understand the grief a parent experiences when they lose a child."